The office is dead… isn’t it?

By Phil Jarratt

There’s been a lot of chatter in the mainstream media in recent days about the return to “normality” in the post-Covid world, which, of course is still a long way off, but we can dream.

Part of that normality is that corporate bosses around the country are apparently devising ways to drag employees who have been allowed to work from home kicking and screaming back into the office. After the initial mass exodus from CBD office towers as the whole country went into lockdown last March, corporate strategists have been trying to work out exactly what is the future of the workplace.

By mid-year it had become apparent that office work was not going to look the same in the foreseeable future, perhaps…